Posted on 11/19/2004 4:22:29 PM PST by Sub-Driver
Clinton Rips Media, Ken Starr After Opening of Presidential Library By James Jefferson Associated Press Writer
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) - In a prime-time television outburst, Bill Clinton ripped old nemesis Kenneth Starr and what the former president portrayed as a gullible media eager to report every "sleazy thing" leaked from a prosecutor bent on bringing him down. The exchange came in an interview with ABC news anchor Peter Jennings that aired Thursday night, hours after Clinton opened his $165 million presidential library. Clinton blasted Starr and spoke disdainfully of a national media that he suggested was complicit in a scheme to ruin his presidency.
"No other president ever had to endure someone like Ken Starr," Clinton said. "No one ever had to try to save people from ethnic cleansing in the Balkans, and people in Haiti from a military dictator that was murdering them, and all the other problems I dealt with, while every day an entire apparatus was devoted to destroying him."
The former president said he would go to his grave at peace that, while he had personal failings, he never lied to the American people about his job as president.
Clinton added that he doesn't care about what his detractors think about him. Jennings then said it seemed to him that Clinton did care.
The former president responded, "You don't want to go here, Peter. You don't want to go here. Not after what you people did and the way you, your network, what you did with Kenneth Starr. The way your people repeated every, little sleazy thing he leaked. No one has any idea what that's like."
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Yeah, but could you "feel" his pain?
What started his rant is when Jennings told him that historians rated him 41st among presidents in "moral values"...even below Nixon. That's when he started saying..."you don't want to go there Peter."
You can sense his bitterness and total self-serving attitude! I belive he is a very sick man.
Amazing, isn't it?
Clinton remained in office because some Americans are very stupid, and Ross gave an assist.
Here.
Exactly! This administration was reknowned (by all) for putting out the bad information so they could control the damage and get out in front of it.
He looks sick. Maybe time is running out and we will see a last desperate attempt to salvage something, anything, that he can call positive about his two terms.
No I didn't but you could see how it is eating him up inside. I think we will see more of this as he gets out and starts to speak more.
Is this clip available on the web? I'd sure like to get a copy!
Don't believe what you saw, the interview was a giant coverup of how the MSM saved Blozo from impeachment. The last few days before the impeachment vote the MSM was doing 24/7 "Save Bill Clinton at all costs" coverage. I'm not fooled by his fake outrage at the media.
Actually not. This is the real WJC....no spin here, er, no spin staff to save him....caught on film. There are medical terms for this, but I'm no doctor.....
Someone needs to call a waaahmbulance for the bent one... the Breck Girl will probably be chasing it when it arrives. Yes, impeachment, is truly the gift that keeps on giving - I remember that day when the House voted those articles and how good that felt.
I just saw this clip on FoxNews. Amazing!
Thanks. I can't wait to see the clips. If I'd gotten home 5 minutes earlier, I wouldn't have missed it.
Like all of us someday Billy will have to stand before his Creator and answer for his sins
I dont think Jesus as judge will stand for too much of Clinton's "Depends on what the meaning of 'is'...is"
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